By: Mandy Gaither, Source: WYFF ANDERSON COUNTY, S.C. —Former Anderson County Administrator Joey Preston has been ordered to repay more than $1.2 million that he earned after investing money in Ron Wilson’s Ponzi scheme, WYFF News 4 Investigates’ Mandy Gaither has learned. Wilson, a former Anderson County councilman, is serving time at a federal prison
By: Matt Richtel, Source: The NY Times. Roadway fatalities are soaring at a rate not seen in 50 years, resulting from crashes, collisions and other incidents caused by drivers. Just don’t call them accidents anymore. That is the position of a growing number of safety advocates, including grass-roots groups, federal officials and state and local
The News-Gazette had a very sick and disturbing article on how Channing J. Butler, an employee of Bickford Senior Living facility Bickford Cottage, was caught and arrested for soliciting others to have sex with female residents so that he could videotape them. Butler allegedly wanted the men to perform both oral and vaginal sex on
In a report on how lobbyists and legislators interact, Georgia reporters from Mass Report showcase how corrupt our political system is. They attempted to gain access to a private ALEC meeting where legislators’ attendance is subsidized by lobbyists and lobbyists have an equal vote at the table.
By: Samantha Page, Originally Published: 5.6.16, Source: Think Progress For the past 65 years, if someone — or some company — was illegally polluting in South Carolina, you could sue. The law was put on the books so that if South Carolina’s enforcement agencies didn’t have the time, money, or political backing to go after
The Bridgeton Landfill, about 20 miles northwest of St. Louis, is in many ways a typical pile of trash. Bridgeton is a layer cake of garbage and dirt at the bottom of an old limestone quarry, all of it covered with a frosting of clay, plastic liner, soil and grass. But for the last six
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